I am very pleased to announce that Wine Enthusiast magazine has awarded our 2013 Glenwood Cellars Sauvignon Blanc a rating of 87 points on its 50-100 point rating scale. For those of you not familiar with the 100-point wine rating scale, it is a method professional wine tasters use to rate or grade a wine. I […]

Last week I was in Nashville, Tenn., attending the 2014 Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Fall World Conference. Two of my colleagues, Brent Miller and Pete Letherman, from our real estate company, FM Stone Commercial, were also in attendance. Why would I be reporting on a real estate conference in a wine blog? […]

I remember the first time Mrs. Tiedemann and I decided to try Morton’s Steakhouse in Chicago. It must have been 20 years ago or more. We were relatively new to the Chicago restaurant scene back then and had never been to Morton’s. We caught a cab at our hotel and proudly announced to the cab […]

It hardly seems possible that an entire year has gone by since Mrs. Tiedemann and I attended the last Wellfield Botanic Gardens Annual Dinner. But last Thursday evening we once again had the privilege of attending The Gardens (as it is called by many) Annual Dinner. What a grand evening it was. The temperature was […]

Sunday As I have mentioned in the past, I fly American Airlines and when I go to Napa, I take their Sunday morning flight, No. 2356 that leaves Chicago O’Hare at 10:30 a.m. and arrives in San Francisco at 1:30 p.m. It is a long flight at 4 hours and 35 minutes. However, taking that […]